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Prof. Dr. Rolf Otto Seeling

Foundation Representative for Education & Training

Prof. Dr. Rolf Otto Seeling works primarily for medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs, whom he advises and represents in matters of employment and corporate law. In employment law, his advice covers all essential individual employment law and collective law issues. In the field of corporate law, he advises on the establishment and acquisition of companies, restructuring and changes in shareholders, and the transfer of businesses. In the intersecting areas of labour and corporate law, Prof. Dr. Seeling advises and represents companies as well as board members, managing directors and employees in executive positions in the establishment, amendment and termination of board functions and employment contracts. In this context, the main focus of Prof. Dr. Seeling's practice also includes questions of manager liability.

Prof. Dr. Seeling has held and holds various board functions in companies and knows the corresponding requirements from his own work. Among other things, he is a member of the supervisory board of VR meine Bank eG. He was able to gain profound knowledge of stock corporation law in his long-standing capacity as one of the spokespersons of the German Association for the Protection of Shareholdings. (DSW) in Northern Bavaria.

Prof. Dr. Seeling teaches at the FOM University for Economics & Management in Nuremberg as a professor of commercial law. The focus of his teaching activities is on labour and company law. In these fields of law he is constantly active in the area of publications. With the "Labour Law Breakfast" and the "SME Forum on Corporate Law" Prof. Dr. Seeling has established two very successful lecture series at the university, which alternately deal with practice-relevant and current labour law and corporate law topics.

Prof. Dr. Seeling is regularly mentioned in the JUVE Handbook of German Commercial Law Firms as a competent and frequently recommended lawyer.

  • since 2015 Managing Partner of the law firm THORWART Nuremberg and Gera
  • 2009 Professorship for Business Law
  • since 2007 Specialist lawyer for commercial and corporate law
  • since 1999 Specialist lawyer for labour law
  • 1994 Admission to the bar
  • Doctorate with Prof. Dr. Grasmann in Wuerzburg
  • Studied law in Bayreuth and Munich and at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Bank apprenticeship with a major German bank